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Filament vs Fivetran
Side-by-side capabilities and cost.
LICENSE
Your infrastructure, entirely
OPEN SOURCE
Fivetran is closed source and proprietary.
DEPLOYMENT
Compute you already run
SELF-HOSTED
The control plane stays with Fivetran.
PRICING MODEL
Apache 2.0, one repository
NO METERING
Fivetran meters monthly active rows.
IF CONTRACT ENDS
114.8 s at 2.6M rows per second
YOURS TO KEEP
Fivetran stops working.
Fivetran is a managed ELT service. It is known for a wide catalog of connectors and for requiring very little setup. It is closed source, runs in Fivetran's cloud, and bills on the rows you move. Filament is an open-source replication engine that runs entirely on your own infrastructure with nothing metered.
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Why Filament
Apache 2.0, open source
Self-hosted in full
Yes. One repository, no paid tier, nothing gated
Adding a new source
A YAML manifest for REST APIs, loaded at runtime with no rebuild. A Go driver for databases and other driver-based sources
Methodology
@Mitch
Move data with Filament